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Got to the ramp with a fishing buddy from Cairo EARLY !!! and ran into Dubble Trubble. Headed of Econfina and went west and east and shallow and deep. Didn't matter where I went it was hot...The air, not the fishing. Stayed with it til about 3. Ended the day with a decent box of fish. 6 trout, 3 rockies and 2 of these



Can someone enlighten me as to what kind of fish this is and is it good to eat ?

Here's a picture of the rest of the catch minus one trout that got cleaned before the photo



It was hot but still a lot of fun...looking forward to next Saturday...........now time for bed

I don't know what it is, but I bet it'll make the grease stink. Fry it up and try it.

Good hot trip, Welby.

Thats a Porgy in the first picture.

Porgy. Also known as pink mouth grunt. Very good eating.

That ain't no pink mouth grunt, that is a jolthead porgy, it taste a lot like snapper.

CairoTrout wrote:That ain't no pink mouth grunt, that is a jolthead porgy, it taste a lot like snapper.

Excuse me Professor, i always call em pink mouths ans actually it is in the grunt family!!! Look it up smart A!!

It ain't no grunt.
Jolthead Porgy ( Calamus bajonado ) are a plain silvery fish, scales with blue centers and brassy margins. Cheek brassy, with no markings. Only real markings are a short blue line under each eye. Corner of mouth and isthmus have slight orange cast. Has molar like teeth for urchins, crabs, and mollusks.

Jolthead Porgy inhabitat sand as well as coral bottoms usually in water depths of 20 to 150 feet deep.

Jolthead Porgy have a range in the Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina all the way to Brazil including the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico absent from some stretches of the Western Gulf of Mexico.

The Jolthead Porgy is a good food fish caught by commercial and recreational anglers.

Also Welby, you must have found my coral beds today. Great report, did you tear Jody up today

Thanks for the info guys.........and Heath, I think Jodie and I were about even...

How you like that Okuma? Nice isn't it.

The Key West Grunt (Pinkmouth) is a different fish from the Jolthead Porgy....

http://www.rodnreel.com/gulffish/gulffi ... FishID=202

http://www.rodnreel.com/gulffish/gulffi ... FishID=197

But his fish also favors the whitebone porgy....
http://www.rodnreel.com/gulffish/gulffi ... FishID=204

And I was thrown by the cooler markings....According to what I saw, the fish should be 28 inches long? 46"-18" = 28"

Dubble

Forgive me for miss ID ing a fish since I was eight years old. I looked it up to be sure I was right and I guess I miss read what I read. I still call em pink mouths on my boat. You call em what you like. And Heath , you may of got that one right but you still cant spell ,ya dumb beoyoch!!!!

What depth you get the trout in Welby? We went to keaton and tried 4-8' of water but I only got 2 keepers and a bunch of shorts.

That's some good info guys, I caught one last time I was at Econfina and didn't have any idea what it was and tossed it back. It's not too often I catch I fish I can't identify, but that one stumped me. Now I know

The most common name for that fish is Sailors' Choice.

Jumptrout51 wrote:The most common name for that fish is Sailors' Choice.

You need to clean your trifocals

http://www.surfridercharters.com/SailorsChoice.html

Nice catch Welby